@gregfielding have you considered using p2 on a community blog where members can submit those community updates you need? In a sense it could serve as an activity stream for posts. and think of all you could do with wp posts that you can’t with activity stream entries.
@WCCP
The s2member plugin will do everything you want, and a whole LOT more too! Watch out though, you can easily get lost in all the features and options, so take it slow and follow the startup instructions closely. But everything is very well documented, and there’s a pretty good help forum available if you get stuck.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/s2member/
There is also a new bridge plugin for s2member (or any other membership plugin) that enables you and your users to create private profiles that become visible to certain membership levels. It automatically inserts an “Upgrade” link in member profiles that displays to users who don’t yet have view permissions.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-profiles-manager/
@gregfielding
Check out this thread. You can adapt the code provided for xprofile fields by simply replacing the ul class with `table.profile-fields`.
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/make-drop-down-menu-links-open-in-new-page/
There are also several plugins that might get the job done too, but you may have to fiddle with them. Search the wp repo for “Open external links in a new window” for a few examples.
@hnla Well “Home” is supposed to show a frontpage for the group, In “Activity” i want to show the activity page, that’s why i need a new tab 
thanks @mercime tried adding that memory increase to .htaccess didn’t work … i upgraded wordpress to latest …still won’t activate …tried deleting buddypress plugin and uploading new version ….doesn’t activate
the wordpress admin says “Plugin activated.” after it finishes but its still in the inactive section and no buddypress options
is the only next step to delete buddypress database tables?
I also use BWP-recaptcha for my other blogs on the network, so I can access the pub and priv keys from there, like so:
global $bwp_capt;
$publickey = $bwp_capt->options;
and
global $bwp_capt;
$private_key = $bwp_capt->options;
That way the keys are kept in one place.
The only problem I have with this is in Firefox I need to add css to put the div in the right place:
#recaptcha_widget_div {
clear:both;
}
does the trick.
@pinhit Kenny this is what I mentioned on your other thread and is now an example of where there are too many posts revolving around the same question . This solution (read the whole thread linked to above for full understanding) will work to limit access to directories or in the version above it permits access to specific pages and if not in that list of allowed directs to the signup page. I think this is your best solution rather than to try and restrict drilled down aspects of pages.
I’ll close the other thread as it is redundant now.
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-make-a-private-community?topic_page=6&num=15#post-86316
Derived from the above link, I use the following in a bp-custom.php file to exclude users that are not logged in from seeing the activity or members areas.
function sh_walled_garden()
{
global $bp;
if( bp_is_register_page() || bp_is_activation_page() || bp_is_page( BP_FORUMS_SLUG ) || bp_is_page( BP_GROUPS_SLUG ) )
return;
if( ! bp_is_blog_page() && ! is_user_logged_in() )
bp_core_redirect( $bp->root_domain .'/'. BP_REGISTER_SLUG );
}
add_action( 'get_header', 'sh_walled_garden' );
In bp-custom.php the above needs to be placed in a plain text file with “ at the end of the file….
Yep, was a disaster. I cannot understand whats happening with buddypress at all. Tried updating and didnt change a thing. Now at least the site is active again. Im getting globalgold to run a backup restore to the 28th. Hopefully I can work from there.
@pinhit the expresion ‘lever advise’ is not a good choice of terms nor is ‘misguided ‘ the support forum is voluntary; people help out where they can, there is no SLa that advise is correct it’s the best that a member might be able to offer.
If you have found your own solutions to problems then that is great and you are on the road to learning – keep it up.
As for the question I’m afraid it is pretty much a repeat it’s in essence the same question as follows: “how can I restrict views of a particular page/element/component”. The code was provided that enables this , there are many conditional template tags that allow for simple logic queries such as “is the user logged in? then allow else send them elsewhre or post a message” you will use the same process for different situations.
However you may benefit from simply blocking logged out users using a small snippet of code that I think was named ‘Walled garden’ or something similar.
@hkcharlie bp-social theme is a premium theme and we’re not privy to the template intracacies of that theme without purchasing one. You should be able to get free support for the paid theme.
@mercime it wasn’t installed at all… now thats confused me!
Go to Admin Dashboard menu Plugins > plugins and you’ll the list of plugins and descriptions. Go to Buddypress and note the version number stated in description.
